Fuirena.] cixxii, cypeeacbje. (C. B. Clarke.) 657 



Thw. Enum. 347 ; Boeclc. in Idnnsea, xxxvii. 110. ¥. paniculata, Lam. Ml. 

 1. 150, t. 39. P. pentagona, JVees in Wight Conirih. 93 ; P. quinquan- 

 gulans, Sassi:. in Flora, xxv. (1842) BeiU. 3. F. uncinata, Thw. I. c. 347 

 {not of Eu^'th). —¥mieiia.. Wall. Oat. 3542, 3543. 



Throughout India, except the drier North-west, alt. O-3O0O ft.— Disteib. All 

 warm (not too dry) countries. 



Stolons hardening into rhizomes, clothed by ovate-lanceolate striate scales. 

 Bepals much shorter than nut, linear, glabrous or retrorse-scabrous, often 0. FetaU 

 nearly as long as nut, 3-uerved, minutely hairy, truncate at top and often notched 

 sometimes with a minute mucro in the notch.— Generally known from F. glome- 

 rata hy the more compound corymb— an unsafe character; when the rhizome is 

 wanting, dried examples can be certainly distinguished only by the shape of petals. 



13. Z.XPOCARPHA, Br. 



Glabrous. Stem leafy only near base, bearing a single head of few 

 (usually 1-6) Spikelets. Spilcelets with, very many hermaphrodite flowers, 

 tabescent at top. Glumes imbricated on all sides, deciduous leaving the 

 persistent rhacnilla marked by lozenge-shaped scars. Squamellsa 2, an 

 anticous and posticous, hyaline, elliptic, as long as nut (formed out of 

 coalescent hypogynous bristles). Stamens 3-1, anticous; anthers small, 

 linear-oblong, muticous. iSti/le small, slender, glabrous, shortly 2-fid 

 (sometimes 3-fid) scarcely exsert. Nut small, oblong or ovoid, plano- 

 convex, smooth, reticulated, finally brown-black. — Species 13, warm 

 regions. 



This genus in habit, inflorescence, rhaehilla of spikelet, style and nut, is ex- 

 cessively like (and really closely allied to) Seirpus Sect. Micranthce ; from which it 

 only differs in the squamellae standing fore and aft,' not laterally. These squamellse 

 are hyaline, cling to the nut, and are difScult to see. 



1. Ii. argrentea, Br. in Append. Tuchey Congo, 459 ; spikelets 1-8 

 pale or fuscous, nut much shorter than squamellae, style linear 3-fid as 

 long as l-f nut. Thw. Enum. 347 ; Strachey Cat. PI. Kvmaon, 73 ; Boeck. 

 in Linnsea, xxxvii. 114 (excl. American examples). L. Issvigata, Nees in 

 Wight Contrih. 92. Hypaelyptum argenteum, Yahl Enum. ii. 283. Tunga 

 laevigata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 183. Kyllinga albescens, Steud. 8yn. Cyp. 68 ; 

 Miq^. Fl. Ind Bat. in. 294.— Lipocarpha, Wall. Cat. 3445 F, G, H. 



From the Wbsteen Himalaya, alt. 0-6000 ft.; and Assam to Ceyion and 

 SiNOAPOEB. — Disteib. Trop. and sub-trop. Old World. 



SMzome hardly any. Stems 4-24 in., obtusely trigonous, smooth. Leaves as 

 long as stem or much shorter, Jj in. broad. Spilcelets up to J by i in. ; bracts often 

 2 in. QVwmes obovate, apex obtusely triangular incurved. Nut sessile, obovoid or 

 ellipsoid obtuse. 



2. Xi. sphacelata, Kunth Enum. ii. 267 ; spikelets 1-8 black-purple 

 or if pale usually purple spotted, nut nearly as long as squameUss, style 

 very short 3-fid. TJiw. Enum. 347 ; Boeck. in Linnsea, xxxvii. 116. L. 

 triceps, Wees in Wight Contrib. 92. Hypaelyptum sphacelatum, Vahl 

 Enum. ii. 283. H. ceylanicum, Nees in Linnsea, ii. 288. Tunga triceps, 

 Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 183. Seirpus hemisphaericus, Moth. Nov. PI. 8p. 29. 

 Hypelytrum triceps, Bietr. Sp. PI. ii. 363. — Lipocarpha, Wall. Cat. 3444. 



Throughout India (except the dry N.-West), alt. 0-2000 ft., from Nepal and 

 Assam to Cbtlon and Tavoy. — Disteib. Trop. Africa and America. 



